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Pairing a best-selling argument text with a thematic reader, Everything’s an Argument with Readings teaches students to analyze the arguments that surround them every day and to create their own. The book starts with proven instructional content by composition luminaries Andrea Lunsford and John Ruszkiewicz, covering five core types of arguments. Revised based on feedback from its large and devoted community of users, the seventh edition offers a new chapter on multimedia argument and more than 35 readings across perspectives and genres, from academic essays and newspaper editorials to tweets and infographics.

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Andrea Lunsford, Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor of English emerita and former Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University, joined the Stanford faculty in 2000. Prior to this appointment, Lunsford was Distinguished Professor of English at The Ohio State University (1986-2000). She has also been Associate Professor and Director of Writing at the University of British Columbia (1977-86). Currently a member of the faculty of the Bread Loaf School of English, Professor Lunsford earned her B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Florida and completed her Ph.D. in English at The Ohio State University (1977).Professor Lunsford's scholarly interests include contemporary rhetorical theory, women and the history of rhetoric, collaboration and collaborative writing, current cultures of writing, intellectual property and composing, style, and technologies of writing. She has written or coauthored many books, including Essays on Classical Rhetoric and Modern Discourse; Singular Texts/Plural Authors: Perspectives on Collaborative Writing; and Reclaiming Rhetorica: Women in the History of Rhetoric, as well as numerous chapters and articles. For Bedford/St. Martin’s, she is the author of The St. Martin's Handbook, The Everyday Writer, EasyWriter, and Writing in Action; the co-author (with John Ruszkiewicz) of Everything’s an Argument and (with John Ruszkiewicz and Keith Walters) of Everything’s an Argument with Readings; and the co-author (with Lisa Ede) of Writing Together: Collaboration in Theory and Practice.Professor Lunsford has conducted workshops on writing and program reviews at dozens of North American universities, served as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, as Chair of the Modern Language Association Division on Writing, and as a member of the MLA Executive Council.John J. Ruszkiewicz is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin where he has taught literature, rhetoric, and writing for more than thirty-five years. A winner of the President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award, he was instrumental in creating the Department of Rhetoric and Writing in 1993 and directed the unit from 2001-05. He has also served as president of the Conference of College Teachers of English (CCTE) of Texas, which gave him its Frances Hernández Teacher—Scholar Award in 2012. For Bedford/St. Martin's, he is coauthor, with Andrea Lunsford, of Everything’s An Argument; coauthor, with Jay T. Dolmage, of How to Write Anything with Readings; and the author of How To Write Anything and A Reader's Guide to College Writing.Keith Walters is professor of applied linguistics at Portland State University. Much of his research focuses on language and identity in North Africa, especially Tunisia, and the United States. He has also taught freshman composition and English as a second/foreign language.

Preface Part 1: Reading and Understanding Arguments

1. Everything Is an Argument Why We Make Arguments Occasions for Argument Kinds of Argument STASIS QUESTIONS AT WORK Appealing to Audiences CULTURAL CONTEXTS FOR ARGUMENT

2. Arguments Based on Emotion: Pathos Reading Critically for Pathos Using Emotions to Build Bridges Using Emotions to Sustain an ArgumentUsing Humor Using Arguments Based on Emotion

3. Arguments Based on Character: EthosThinking Critically About Arguments Based on Character Establishing Trustworthiness and Credibility Claiming Authority Coming Clean about Motives CULTURAL CONTEXTS FOR ARGUMENT

4. Arguments Based on Facts and Reason: Logos Thinking Critically About Hard Evidence Using Reason and Common Sense CULTURAL CONTEXTS FOR ARGUMENT Providing Logical Structures for Argument

6. Rhetorical Analysis Composing a Rhetorical Analysis Understanding the Purpose of Arguments You Are Analyzing Understanding Who Makes an Argument Identifying and Appealing to Audiences Examining Arguments Based on Emotion: Pathos Examining Arguments Based on Character: Ethos Examining Arguments Based on Facts and Reason: Logos Examining the Arrangement and Media of Arguments Looking at Style Examining a Rhetorical Analysis David Brooks, It’s Not about You Rachel Kolb, Understanding Brooks’s Binaries (student essay) GUIDE TO WRITING A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS

8. Arguments of Fact Understanding Arguments of Fact Characterizing Factual Arguments Developing a Factual Argument GUIDE TO WRITING AN ARGUMENT OF FACT Projects Two Sample Factual Arguments Taylor Pearson, Why You Should Fear Your Toaster More Than Nuclear Power (student essay) *Neil Irwin, What the Numbers Show about NFL Player Arrests

9. Arguments of Definition Understanding Arguments of Definition Kinds of Definition Developing a Definitional Argument GUIDE TO WRITING AN ARGUMENT OF DEFINITION Projects Two Sample Definitional Arguments *Natasha Rodriguez, Who Are You Calling Underprivileged? (student essay) *Joyce Xinran Liu, Friending: The Changing Definition of Friendship in the Social Media Era

23. How Does Popular Culture Stereotype You? Stephanie Hanes, Little Girls or Little Women? The Disney Princess Effect *Making a Visual Argument: Cartoons and Stereotypes *Amy Stretten, Appropriating Native American Imagery Honors No One But the Prejudice Charles A. Riley II, Disability and the Media: Prescriptions for Change Claude M. Steele, from Whistling Vivaldi and Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us *Melina C. R. Burgess, et al., Playing with Prejudice: The Prevalence and Consequences of Racial Stereotypes in Video Games *Amy Zimmerman, It Ain’t Easy Being Bisexual on TV

26.What Should “Diversity on Campus” Mean and Why? *Making a Visual Argument: Diversity Posters *Deena Prichep, A Campus More Colorful than Reality: Beware That College Brochure *Sarah Fraas, Trans Women at Smith: The Complexities of Checking “Female” *Young M. Kim and James S. Cole, Student Veterans/Service Members’ Engagement in College and University Education *Shabana Mir, from Muslim American Women on Campus: Undergraduate Social Life and Identity *Sheryll Cashin, from Place, Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America Walter Benn Michaels, The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality

*27. How Has the Internet Changed the Meaning of Privacy? *Daniel J. Solove, The Nothing-to-Hide Argument *Rebecca Greenfield, What Your Email Metadata Told the NSA About You *Making a Visual Argument: Cartoons *danah boyd and Kate Crawford, from “Six Provocations for Big Data” *Todd Zwillich and Christian Rudder, It’s Not OK Cupid: Co-Founder Defends User Experiments *Supreme Court of the United States, Riley v. California *Amy Davidson, Four Ways the Riley Ruling Matters for the NSA